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Reason.com's Radley Balko cites current cases regarding cops harassing photographers and the legality of taking photos. It is all about power... not security.

More here ( http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/the_war_on_phot.html )as encryption expert Bruce Schneier speaks up on harassment of photographers, legality of taking photos, and the myth that terrorists use photographs of their targets to prepare their attacks.

Apparently you don't need common sense to be a big wig in washington. What makes anything illegal? Obviously a bunch of words on a piece of paper dictates legality.

Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that the decision to kill a U.S. citizen living abroad who poses a terrorist threat "is among the gravest that government leaders can face," but justified lethal action as legal and sometimes necessary. "When such individuals take up arms, ... plotting attacks designed to kill their fellow Americans, there may be only one realistic and appropriate response."

Daily News @ http://RevolutionNews.US ~ Tattoo ink and internet ink are very similar. A lot of people are getting tattoos and putting their personal information on the internet. But, both tattoos and information on the internet are regrettably hard to remove. Even good ol' Mark Zuckerberg is finding out the hard way that making some personal information public might be a bad idea...

Jon Stewart tries to figure out what hes allowed to put in his mouth as NY legislation proposes to criminalize soft drinks while de-criminalizing soft drugs...if all this proposed legislation goes through, it will kinda sorta be more acceptable to carry around a cupful of pot than a cupful of Coke.

A cop kills an old man in a wheel chair because he's speeding 20 miles over the speed limit and only loses his job!

"We've got bigger fish to fry," Obama told ABC News' Barbara Walters. "It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it's legal."

"What Fourth Amendment?" In an 8-1 ruling today, the US Supreme Court upheld the legality of evidence obtained by police breaking down the door to an apartment--not because they saw suspect they were pursuing dash behind it, but because they smelled marijuana smoke and heard the sound of a flushing toilet. To add insult to injustice, their original suspect was in a different apartment.

Please, yes he could have really raped two women who know each other, in two separate incidents — even though he knows that an arrest can be made at any time. He knows full well that the U.S. has a long reach and other governments cooperate. He knows there are people who want to silence him. He knows it is not a matter of if, it is only a matter of when.

But how much sense does that make? It’s not logical.

Not impossible, of course. But there is something else that is possible: People do get removed if they become a problem to the higher-ups within the political class.